Using .ply models

[Maluminas]

The .ply models from Stanford scans are too heavy for my computer to handle in Blender, and the decimated versions that came with the file are a mess (loss of detail, random double faces, holes, etc.). I think i read somewhere in here that you can 'append' a .ply model to the scene xml just like a .3ds model. I wanted to know how i could do this (if its possible lol), a code example would be perfect.

And in fact i cant even use the decimated files, because if i finally succeed at exporting it, the xml is so large that my computed hardly loads it and i cant add characters in the code unless i delete an equal number elsewhere in the text, which is really mysterious and annoying lol.

Thanks for any help

[manitwo]

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	<mesh>
		<name>PLY-Model</name>
		<scale>1</scale>
		<normal_smoothing>true</normal_smoothing>
		<external>
			<path>models\model.ply</path>
		</external>
	</mesh>

[domparis]

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<mesh>
	<name>big_mesh</name>
	<normal_smoothing>true</normal_smoothing>	
	<external>
		<path>path\to\model.ply</path>
	</external>
</mesh>

Same as 3ds append, be sure to introduce the "normal_smoothing" tag in the mesh block not in the model anymore.

For big ply object i have found in the forum a link to MeshLab, a very fast and efficient tools that clean, reduce very well polygons (quadric edge collapse fonction is aswome)

http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/

Hope it help

Dom

Edit : To late

[Maluminas]

Thanks! ill try all of that

[Zom-B]

wow... totally new to me

I allways reduced ply models to a 65535 triangle 3DS file to use them in Indigo *lol*

nice to know, that I don't have to do that

**EDIT**

Works perfect! just one questions:

How do I rotate the model by using XML code??